I think they mostly all believed that anyway - or at least the gun control/didn't fight back thing has a really long history among the gun nuts. It's all part and parcel of the "you know who else liked gun control!? Everyone evil in history and no one good!" thing you see floating around.

Weirdly, I mean given how true what you said is, it's kind of a good answer in a lot of ways - or at least it's a decent explanation. The guy shows up and right as he does there's this bill that comes up for a vote and everyone in his party is voting for it and so on. If I hadn't been paying as close attention…

The extent to which Sanders got the sort of "now everyone go down the line and say something bad about Sanders" treatment at the beginning (the 'are YOU a socialist?' bit) was pretty hackish, and reminded me a lot of the 'raise your hand if you'll endorse the primary winner' thing from the Republican debate. And the…

I thought he was going for something more like "Of the alternatives to Hillary Clinton, the mainstream Democratic one is…", rather than suggesting that O'Malley was different from Clinton as far as that went.

Also while it's less than the Republican debate, unsurprisingly I think, eleven million is still pretty massive numbers for a primary debate, isn't it?

The press have had their thumbs firmly on the scales this entire race - for both parties, I mean, not just the democrats. They've done it plenty before, but for some reason it seems really glaringly obvious this time.

…with each Republican nominee being more outlandish than the last, you can’t discount the “morbid curiosity” factor. But
the Democratic candidates as a whole have generated less interest than
their Republican counterparts, going over boring things like health care
and email servers…

To be fair, though, every time we see a metahuman use their powers publicly on The Flash they.."disappear" right afterwards.

"You can't use your powers or our snipers will shoot you!"
"Oh yeah!? What if I use them to kill myself - what then!?"

Well yeah but they had teleporters right?

Her heightened reactions seem linked to some pretty specific (buzzy) kinds of sounds so it's probably not an overall heightening of senses so much as some experiences with something that made similar sounds (and probably not a positive one).

Honestly though the sand guy seems like he would be really easy to take down without killing him. The Flash moves really, really fast and the sand demon comes apart into very little pieces whenever he wants to hit someone. Barry just needed like eighty bell jars sitting nearby in a van and the problem would have…

The wings make it aerodynamic!

Somehow I can't help but love the way the show both presents itself as a lighter less gritty/grim version of Arrow but simultaneously is way, way darker and nastier. At this point they've escalated from openly kidnapping and imprisoning (illegally, without trial, in underground solitary confinement* with no plan for…

Maybe - but turning him into glass isn't the same as gluing bits of sand together. Making sand into glass basically involves breaking the sand down into its component molecules and refashioning them into something else (and a lot of the various contaminants involved have to get drawn out too, unless the sand is…

I want to hate Theo Galavan because the character is awful but I can't because every time he shows up I get the song from the show Galavant stuck in my head and the crossover is really amusing to me.

I think we could be (very) slightly more generous to the show, because the lady really was portrayed as having exactly that kind of boyfriend (violent, vaguely abusive, dangerous seeming) beforehand - namely the guy Nygma killed. And she agreed to go out with him after he basically pushed his way in and declared that…

Sometimes I think it's unfair that I only get one upvote.

And then after that book he has to write one about Westeros, too.

Well - the areas in question were. But the actual countries didn't exist until a fair bit later.